fat
1. a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides) (Freq. 2)
- pizza has too much fat
• Hypernyms:
lipid, lipide, lipoid
• Hyponyms:
edible fat, animal fat, cocoa butter, leaf fat, leaf lard,
myelin, myeline, medulla, polyunsaturated fat
• Substance Holonyms:
fat cell, adipose cell
• Substance Meronyms:
triglyceride
• Part Meronyms:
glyceride, acylglycerol
2. a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy;
it also cushions and insulates vital organs (Freq. 1)
- fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold
• Syn:
adipose tissue, fatty tissue
• Derivationally related forms:
fatty
• Hypernyms:
animal tissue
• Hyponyms:
flab, atheroma, cellulite, puppy fat, mons,
mons veneris, mons pubis, belly, paunch, spare tire, love handle
3. excess bodily weight
- she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others
• Syn:
fatness, blubber, avoirdupois
• Ant:
leanness (for: fatness)
• Derivationally related forms:
blubbery (for: blubber), fat (for: fatness)
• Hypernyms:
bodily property
• Hyponyms:
adiposity, adiposeness, fattiness, abdominousness, paunchiness,
paunchiness, oiliness, oleaginousness, fleshiness, obesity,
corpulency, steatopygia
make fat or plump
- We will plump out that poor starving child
• Syn:
fatten, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out,
fatten out, fatten up
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Entailment:
feed, give
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
1. having an (over)abundance of flesh (Freq. 22)
- he hadn't remembered how fat she was
• Ant:
thin
• Similar to:
abdominous, paunchy, potbellied, blubbery, chubby,
embonpoint, plump, buxom, zaftig, zoftig, corpulent,
obese, weighty, rotund, double-chinned, jowly, loose-jowled,
dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby, roly-poly, fattish,
fattish, heavy, overweight, gross, porcine,
portly, stout
• See Also:
endomorphic, pyknic, rounded, thick
• Derivationally related forms:
fatness
• Attrubites:
body weight
2. having a relatively large diameter (Freq. 2)
- a fat rope
• Similar to:
thick
3. containing or composed of fat
- fatty food
- fat tissue
• Syn:
fatty
• Ant:
nonfat (for: fatty)
• Similar to:
adipose, buttery, greasy, oily, sebaceous,
oleaginous, suety, superfatted
• Derivationally related forms:
fatty (for: fatty), fat (for: fatty), fattiness (for: fatty)
4. lucrative
- a juicy contract
- a nice fat job
• Syn:
juicy
• Similar to:
profitable
• Usage Domain:
colloquialism
5. marked by great fruitfulness
- fertile farmland
- a fat land
- a productive vineyard
- rich soil
• Syn:
fertile, productive, rich
• Similar to:
fruitful
• Derivationally related forms:
richness (for: rich), productiveness (for: productive), fertility (for: fertile)
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